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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Podcaster
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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LA
California
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Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.
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I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.
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I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.
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I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
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I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
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I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.
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And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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Women aren't very bright, Rip says. Studies have been done.
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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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If you start looking at movies on a moral level - I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad - then I don't even want to talk to you. Or like, someone that says I don't like science-fiction movies, or I don't want to sit through a Western, or I don't like violence in movies, then I completely tune out.
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No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.
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My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing
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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
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but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything, and she says calmly... glaring at me,If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.
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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?
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What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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